Emerald Fennell

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4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Writer-director Emerald Fennell has made two of the most talked about movies in recent years: Saltburn and Promising Young Woman. Fennell tells host Ben Mankiewicz why she makes uncomfortable films, why she prefers directing over acting, and shares a formative experience watching Jurassic Park. She also challenges Ben on his knee-jerk aversion to costume dramas. You don’t want to miss that! FILMS MENTIONED: Barbie* Promising Young Woman Saltburn Casablanca* The Favourite Smokey and the Bandit Star Wars The Death of Stalin Dangerous Liaisons Napoleon Jurassic Park Midnight Run Out of Sight Bridge of Spies Ben-Hur A Walk To Remember Cape Fear (1991) Cape Fear (1962) Natural Born Killers* To Die For Killing of a Sacred Deer Beau is Afraid Melancholia The Shining Mrs. Miniver Goodbye, Mr. Chips Random Harvest Brief Encounter* *Available on Max as of 1/30 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	But it's only called a costume drummer because that's a sort of misogynistic way of viewing things that women like because they're wearing big dresses.
0:06.1	It's not actually a costume drummer.
0:07.8	It's a drama set in...
0:09.1	You're going to get me on the...
0:10.1	What about the favorite?
0:10.7	You're going to get me on the witness stand and I'm going to fall apart.
0:14.2	No, no, no, no, sorry.
0:15.0	I don't know why I'm coming at you.
0:17.1	No, I love it.
0:26.6	Hey, it's Ben Mankowitz, and that's me. On the cusp of falling apart as I mounted argument against, of all things, costume dramas. The woman calling me of my nonsense, writer-director
0:33.2	Emerald Fennell. In case you don't know who Emerald Finnell is, let's start with her acting.
0:40.8	She played King Charles's love interest, Camilla Parker Bowles, in two seasons of the
0:45.6	Crown.
0:46.5	She's the Princess of Wales.
0:49.2	It's a future queen, the mother to a future king.
0:55.0	And I'm just... My one true love.
1:00.0	A mistress.
1:02.0	Amerald was also in 2023's highest grossing film of the year,
1:06.0	Greta Gerwig's Barbie.
1:08.0	She had almost no lines, but she did wave memorably as Mitch, the pregnant Barbie.
1:15.0	Ah!
1:15.7	Oh, Mitch.
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